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The Traveling People
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The camp was just what Perrin expected. The Tinker wagons were small houses on wheels, tall wooden boxes lacquered and painted in bright colors, reds and blues and yellows and greens and some hues to which he could not put a name. The Traveling People's clothes were even more colorful than the wagons - and seemingly chosen at random. The Tuatha'an sang and danced, cooked and ate around their campfires. The children ran and played everywhere, hideandseek among the wagons, climbing in the trees around the camp, laughing and rolling on the ground with the dogs. Not a care in the world, for anyone.
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"I have heard a story since last we met, and if you have not heard it yet, it might interest you." Raen said.
"I'll listen," Elyas replied.
"It begins in the spring two years ago, with a band of the People who were crossing the Waste. A dying Aiel woman crawled to the wagons. She seized the Seeker of that band by his coat, and this is what she said, word for word. 'Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them ...' And then she died. Leafblighter and Sightburner," Raen added to Perrin, "are Aiel names for the Dark One."
"Something they learned in the Blight," Elyas mused. "But none of it makes sense. Slay the Great Serpent? Kill time itself? And blind the Eye of the World?"
Perrin tried puzzling out the Aiel woman's message, but it made no more sense to him than it had to Raen or Elyas. The silence around the campfire was broken only by the music and laughter drifting from other parts of the nightshrouded camp.
Paraphrased from
The Eye of the World, Chapter Twenty-Five
Book One of The Wheel of Time
By Robert Jordan
The Traveling People
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The camp was just what Perrin expected. The Tinker wagons were small houses on wheels, tall wooden boxes lacquered and painted in bright colors, reds and blues and yellows and greens and some hues to which he could not put a name. The Traveling People's clothes were even more colorful than the wagons - and seemingly chosen at random. The Tuatha'an sang and danced, cooked and ate around their campfires. The children ran and played everywhere, hideandseek among the wagons, climbing in the trees around the camp, laughing and rolling on the ground with the dogs. Not a care in the world, for anyone.
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"I have heard a story since last we met, and if you have not heard it yet, it might interest you." Raen said.
"I'll listen," Elyas replied.
"It begins in the spring two years ago, with a band of the People who were crossing the Waste. A dying Aiel woman crawled to the wagons. She seized the Seeker of that band by his coat, and this is what she said, word for word. 'Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them ...' And then she died. Leafblighter and Sightburner," Raen added to Perrin, "are Aiel names for the Dark One."
"Something they learned in the Blight," Elyas mused. "But none of it makes sense. Slay the Great Serpent? Kill time itself? And blind the Eye of the World?"
Perrin tried puzzling out the Aiel woman's message, but it made no more sense to him than it had to Raen or Elyas. The silence around the campfire was broken only by the music and laughter drifting from other parts of the nightshrouded camp.
Paraphrased from
The Eye of the World, Chapter Twenty-Five
Book One of The Wheel of Time
By Robert Jordan